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		from joyia/Sardar Muhammad (72,279) on April 21, 2009 8:34:24 PM CDT (4) You focused it well dear Edwin and you cought the motion blur to shot that it is hard to balance.. it it was out of focus then the head and eye would have been soft.. this soft touch I saw with the wonderful Thomas/Sass bird image and then a wonderful shot of ducks or wonderful Baba/David .. that tought me that motion capturing is an other form of art.. you nicely captuered the unbalancing brid with its motion .. yes some contrast ..or .. saturation adjustment could make more deferance.. ..nice shot :) best of regards.. JOYIA Reply  Show ratings  From edwin/Edwin K.W. (224,054) on April 22, 2009 1:52:19 AM CDT Thanks dear Joyia, since this is a wrong post of mine by mistake, I will put more time to work on the other shot of this bird in PP. Cheers......Edwin Reply
		from thekiwi/Peter (7,487) on April 21, 2009 8:25:10 PM CDT (4) Hi Edwin Just don't you hate that when you post the wrong image. This one not so good soft wings needs more DOF and the Background could do with a little something .Maybe a bit of color or replaced with a sky.I like the pose exposure colors of the bird they are all good, Regards Peter Reply  Show ratings  From edwin/Edwin K.W. (224,054) on April 22, 2009 1:50:41 AM CDT Thanks Peter, glad to have your look on my sparrow and I agree with you on your suggestion and advise. Always appreciate your thoughts on my works. Cheers......Edwin Reply
		from tmj/Tue (17,480) on April 21, 2009 7:55:43 PM CDT (5) Interesting shot Edwin! Sharpness and details is good where it should be, the head and especially the eye. The rest of the blurry stuff such as the wing shows motion to me. I think you did well to get the head sharp while the bird seems to be moving still and as far as I can tell that rope also have bouncing motion as well (I shoot HB on branch that move with the breeze all the time :-) ) and that goes with the title. On top of that, the catch-lited eye is always a good thing with birdshot. Just my opinion, thanks for sharing! May be my monitor is diff. from others ? :-) Reply  Show ratings  From edwin/Edwin K.W. (224,054) on April 21, 2009 8:24:30 PM CDT Thanks Tm, I appreciate very much on your kind words and comments. I have another one with better result in sharpness, but I posted this version up by mistake. Cheers......Edwin Reply
		from garychisolm/Gary (13,539) on April 21, 2009 7:38:01 PM CDT (8) Edwin, I am going to disagree with those below. I think this was focused well, however at 1/60 sec with the glass that you were using coupled with the obvious movement of this guy the entire image is not sharp. The eye looks very good which is the standard wildlife photography. Composition is good with room for this critter to look into and really stands out from the background. For wildlife images I prefer not to have any manmade objects in them: the rope. I think you did very well given the situation you were in. Keep shooting and thanks for sharing, Gary Reply  Show ratings  From edwin/Edwin K.W. (224,054) on April 21, 2009 8:22:28 PM CDT Thanks Gary, I appreciate your time to view and giving me your opinion on the shot. I have another one with better result that I was supposed to post, by mistake I posted this one up. Cheers......Edwin Reply
		from quisqualis/JULIE (3,600) on April 21, 2009 7:00:03 PM CDT (6) You tried as hard as the bird, and I give you credit. Too bad it moved its wing. The rest or your photo is in a proper relation to your plane of focus. It is possible the wing is forward of this focused region. That makes your lens a bit tricky to work with. Light and head detail are good. That wing cost you 3 thumbs. ;-( Reply  Show ratings  From edwin/Edwin K.W. (224,054) on April 21, 2009 8:20:16 PM CDT Thanks Julie, please read my reply to the previous critique, I was supposed to post the other one with sharp wing, but somehow I posted the wrong one unit I realized that by now in my office. Cheers......Edwin Reply
		from olmosfamily/Enrique (42,776) on April 21, 2009 6:36:06 PM CDT (6) Edwin, hate to do this, but this one looks like very badly focused throughout. Don't know what went really went wrong here but the end result is not attractive at all and this is most unlike anything you've done before. The rope it's on almost blends with the background instead of contrasting sharply with it. The bird is underexposed so you lose detail on its face and its wings chest and tail are very soft. Deliberate or not it does not quite work either way. The idea of the brown sparrow against a light background is good but the execution here has let you down quite badly. Reply  Show ratings  From edwin/Edwin K.W. (224,054) on April 21, 2009 8:18:00 PM CDT I agree with you on the disattractive end result but I the focus looks sharp to me on the bird's eye, I also not agree with you on the rope blending on the background as I don't think it is important for the rope to be sharply contrasting to the background because it is part of it. Appreciate your thought and advise indeed. Actually I have posted the wrong version that I was supposed to, I went out to work immediately after I have posted this photo. Cheers......Edwin Reply

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